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TIL The University of the South Pacific has campuses in all 12 Pacific Island countries and is one of only two universities in the world that is run as an intergovernmental organisation

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GYG9g TIL that in the 1960s, the Soviet Union sent snowplows instead of tractors to Guinea to win them over and that the US government sent parkas to help the government of the Philipines instead of emergency medical military aid during the Reagan era.
M74nA TIL that Valentines day is the day that Saint Valentine was beheaded for supporting soldiers getting married.
xVLgw TIL in 2008, Jeremy Clarkson published his bank details in his Sun newspaper column to prove nobody could take money from his account. Somebody then donated £500 to a Diabetes charity from his account.
X0rNX TIL that Hitler had an honorary citizenship of his hometown that wasn‘t revoked until 2011
aDnA TIL that Kim Jong-un was not supposed to succeed his father, Kim Jong-il. The man that was supposed to succeed Kim Jong-il lost his chance after trying to enter Japan to go to Disneyland.